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For centuries, people used a simple V-shaped branch in a practice called water dowsing to search for underground water before modern detection technology existed. Holding the two ends, dowsers walked across fields and believed the branch would dip or twitch when water was nearby. Although some still believe in this traditional method, scientific studies suggest the movement is caused by the ideomotor effect—unconscious muscle movements—and that dowsing does not reliably locate water better than chance…
